Ashoka's Impact: New Assessment Results

Change Comes to the Middle East

People anywhere who are disempowered,
who are acted upon instead of knowing that
every problem is an opportunity for them to
become a changemaker, are denied much of the
magic of life. People so diminished, including
too many in the Middle East, are likely to feel
humiliated and angry.

Needed: a new
social financial
services industry

The dramatic expansion of the citizen sector over the last two decades—and in particular the explosive emergence of social entrepreneurship—has come about because of a profound change in the sectors underlying culture. Social beings that we are, humans have always supported one another. That is not new. What is new is that the social sector has now become structurally as entrepreneurial and competitive as business. Increasingly the world will be defined by the unstoppable dynamic of more and more citizen groups competing to solve social problems at whatever level is needed — be it local or global.

MTV Partners with Youth Venture and Innovative Learning Initiative

During the last decade, Ashoka has been learning how social entrepreneurs can take the giant step of inventing how they can think and act together—to be far more than the sum of our solo practitioner parts. Over the last year, each of the first three experiments at such group entrepreneurship has passed the acid test of engaging major outside actors

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